The Stranger
(Paperback)
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Publishing Details
The Stranger
By (Author) Albert Camus
Random House USA Inc
Vintage Books
15th December 2014
13th March 1989
United States
Classifications
General
Fiction
FIC
Winner of Nobel Prize 1957
Physical Properties
Paperback
144
Width 131mm, Height 202mm, Spine 10mm
130g
Description
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.
Reviews
A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME
The Stranger is a strikingly modern text and Matthew Wards translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camuss stoical anti-hero and devious narrator remains one of the key expressions of a postwar Western malaise, and one of the cleverest exponents of a literature of ambiguity. from the Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie
Author Bio
Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger-now one of the most widely read novels of this century-in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.
